On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Andrew <mythtv at heathsworld.com> wrote:
> I just upgraded to JYA .23 and now when I start mythfront is tells me it
> cannot connect to the database. What I found is the backend is showing the
> error below (BE and FE on same machine). As it turns out, when the system
> tries to start the back end it gets permission denied when trying to access
> the database. Yet if i start it as a user or root using "mythbackend"
> command it connects just fine. Did the configuration file location get
> changed or something? Obviously /.myth doesn't exist and show below.
>> Would you like to configure the database connection now? [no]
> [console is not interactive, using default 'no']
> 2010-05-08 10:04:39.354 Deleting UPnP client...
> 2010-05-08 10:04:39.942 Failed to init MythContext, exiting.
> 2010-05-08 10:04:40.032 mythbackend version: branches/release-0-23-fixes
> [24473] www.mythtv.org
> 2010-05-08 10:04:40.032 Using runtime prefix = /usr
> 2010-05-08 10:04:40.032 Using configuration directory = /.mythtv
> 2010-05-08 10:04:40.033 Unable to read configuration file mysql.txt
> 2010-05-08 10:04:40.033 Empty LocalHostName.
> 2010-05-08 10:04:40.033 Using localhost value of myth
> 2010-05-08 10:04:40.037 New DB connection, total: 1
> 2010-05-08 10:04:40.042 Unable to connect to database!
> 2010-05-08 10:04:40.043 Driver error was [1/1045]:
> QMYSQL: Unable to connect
> Database error was:
> Access denied for user 'mythtv'@'localhost' (using password: YES)
>> To summarize, only using the upscript to start the backend fails. Any
> starting with the mythbackend command from the terminal and it works fine.
>>Oddly enough, ps -aux shows the upscript running as root.
root 18020 0.5 0.6 287324 39032 ? D 11:45 0:00
/usr/bin/mythbackend --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log
but it cannot access the database. Why would running it directly from a
root terminal work, but the upstart script running as root not work? What
happened with .23 that may have changed this and what did it change?
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